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Why You’ll Love My Recipe

Classic chocolate chip cookies are the perfect snack for cool nights. The added tanginess of cream cheese makes these cookies even more fun to eat. They may just be your family’s new favourite cookie.

For even more chocolaty treats this year, why not try making Easy Chocolate Truffles or Oreo Chocolate Pudding Cookies? Make a batch of Homemade Hot Cocoa or some Irish Coffee so you can enjoy a hot beverage wih your cookies.

A plate of chocolate chip cookies sits on a cloth napkin, with more cookies on a cooling rack nearby. A small bowl of chocolate chips and a glass of milk are also on the marble countertop.

Karlynn’s Recipe Notes

Skill Level: Like most cookie recipes, this one is very easy. The perfect recipe to get your kids to help you with.
Total Time: You can have these cookies ready to eat in under 15 minutes!
Variations: Try adding some chopped nuts to the cookie dough. Walnuts or pecans would fit in with the flavours and add a whole other level of chewiness. You could also try different sorts of chocolate chips, or maybe some butterscotch chips.
Tools Required: For this recipe, you’ll need two large bowls, a hand mixer or stand mixer, a whisk, some cookie sheets, and a standard cookie scoop or tablespoon. You’ll also want some parchment paper or silicone tray liners.

A plate of chocolate chip cookies sits on a marble surface. Two cookies rest nearby, one with a bite taken out. Chocolate chips and a glass of milk are also visible, with a beige cloth underneath the cookies.

What You’ll Need For Ingredients

Cream Cheese: Softened for easier mixing, this is the ingredient that will give the cookies a tanginess that you wouldn’t normally expect from chocolate chip cookies. The added moisture from the cream cheese will also create a softer, chewier cookie.

Chocolate Chips: Obviously, chocolate chips are essential to any good chocolate chip cookie recipe. Whichever variety you enjoy, whether that be milk chocolate, semisweet, dark, or white, will be great in these cookies.

Butter: Softened, unsalted butter plays a vital role in many cookie recipes and this one is no exception. While you can use margarine or some other form of fat, you’ll get the best and most consistent results by using butter.

Baking ingredients on a marble surface include flour, white and brown sugar, chocolate chips, butter, an egg, vanilla extract, baking soda, and salt, with a wooden board and a light cloth napkin.

How To Make Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.

A mixing bowl with butter, brown sugar, and white sugar, surrounded by a bowl of flour, chocolate chips, vanilla extract, an egg, salt, baking soda, and a whisk on a white marble surface.

A mixing bowl with a creamy batter, an egg, and vanilla extract sits on a marble surface. Nearby are a whisk with dough, a bowl of chocolate chips, a bowl of flour, and two small bowls with baking soda and salt.

Preheat oven to 350F.
In a large bowl, mix butter, cream cheese, and both sugars. Add egg and vanilla. Mix until well combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add the dry mixture slowly to the wet mixture and then mix in chocolate chips.
With tablespoon or standard cookie scoop, drop cookie dough onto parchment paper lined cookie sheets.
Bake for 9-11 minutes, until edges are turning brown. Remove and cool.

A stack of five thick, golden chocolate chip cookies sits on a white surface with a few chocolate chips scattered nearby. The cookies look soft and chewy, with chocolate chips visible throughout.

Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

Don’t Overbake: Do not overbake these cookies! In fact, the secret to the perfect cream cheese chocolate chip cookies is to underbake them slightly. Yes, you read that right. Underbaking the cookies will leave them delightfully chewy.

Try This: Why not try using these cookies for ice cream sandwiches? Or add a drizzle of Chocolate Sauce to the cookies once they’ve cooled. Make some Whipped Cream Cheese or Death By Chocolate Dessert Dip to slather in between two cookies to make your own yummy version of sandwich cookies. Don’t forget to try adding some chopped nuts if you’d like some extra crunch in there; Pecans or walnuts will work best for this purpose.

Storage Instructions

Like most cookies, these can be kept in a sealed container at room temperature or in the fridge for a few days. They can also be put in a sealed container or freezer bag and kept in the freezer for several months.

Haven’t quite scratched the chocolate Cookie recipe itch?

Try these Double Chocolate Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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Check out these Cheesecake Filled White Chocolate Red Velvet Cookies if you enjoy the decadence of a good red velvet cake.

I hope you’ll try this zingy twist on a classic chocolate chip cookie. Let me know how these delicious cookies turn out for you.

Happy Baking!

Karlynn

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